76. A Cost-Effective Method for the Seismic Health Monitoring Of Buildings (I-12-HRYA-002)

Instrumentation can be installed to estimate the damage state of a building after an earthquake event, but the current minimum requirements of building instrumentation are costly and have been shown to provide an insufficient amount of information. This research will derive a cost-effective instrumentation strategy for buildings to rapidly determine the seismic health of the structure. A simulation will be conducted on a real-world building in Alaska using the Equations of Dynamic Equilibrium method to determine the displacements of a structure in near-real-time. The results of the simulation have the potential to rapidly determine the damage state of the building and increase community resilience for natural disaster impact reduction measurements in low socioeconomic countries of high seismicity.

Yiou Chen

Zhenxiong Zhang

Boyu Wang